1. 20 Habits of Highly Successful People
1. Dream BIG dreams. You have to HAVE a dream in order to make a dream come true. Get a vision of the future; “believe” that you
can do whatever you’re dreaming.
2. Do what you love. Choose a field where you can become totally absorbed in your work. Do what you do for the sheerjoy of it.
3. Focus on your strengths. Find yourspecial talents and abilities that make you different from everyone else and apply them to your
best advantage.
4. See yourself as self-employed. Take a high degree of Responsibility with whatever company or customer you’re working with. Be
a team player and stay “Results” focused.
5. NEVER considerthe possibility of failure. Highly SuccessfulPeople are not gamblers but we are willing to take calculated risks.
There is no security in life, only opportunity. Ask yourself what the worst thing is that can happen and then make sure it doesn’t.
6. Develop a clear sense of direction. Don’t fail to plan. INTENSE goal orientation is an essentialcharacteristic of all Highly
SuccessfulPeople..
7. Develop a “workaholic” mentality. Work 50 hours a week. All Highly SuccessfulPeople work HARD! This is the bottomline.
You work 8 hours a day for survival. Everything over 8 is for success.
8. Get around the right people – positive, success-minded people. Unfailingly, avoid negative people. A choice of a negative
“reference group” at work or at home is enough to condemn a person to failure.
9. Be teachable. Be open to new information. Remain curious, interested,questioning, and open to new knowledge.
10. Be prepared to climb from peak to peak. Rarely is success one long upward progression. Prepare yourself for the cycles of ups &
downs, ebb & flow, regression & progression.
11. Develop resilience and bounce back after temporary defeats or disappointments. Everyone faces setbacks and obstacles,but the
high achiever is the person who mentally prepares for them in advance and then takes them in stride. All Highly SuccessfulPeople
have suffered resounding defeats,often total bankruptcy before “making it.”
12. Focus on continuous personaldevelopment. All Highly SuccessfulPeople spend a lot of time on personal development. Commit
yourself to becoming a perpetual “learning machine.” Read books and magazines that enrich your mind and develop your skills.
Listen to Cd’s and Podcast; attend seminars by the experts in yourfield.
13. Be an unshakable optimist. This is a very rare trait, but it can be developed through practice if you don’t currently possess it.
Expect to gain something positive from every good or bad situation.
14. Dedicate yourself to serving others. Maintain a preoccupation with serving your customers. Do something that benefits others in
some way, like giving away this leaflet.
15. Develop a reputation for speed and dependability. The easiest,most valuable quality you can develop is a “sense ofurgency,” a
bias for action, a drive to move quickly. Less than 2% of the population moves quickly.
16. Be impeccably honest with yourself and others. Integrity is an indispensable prerequisite for business success. All successful
relationships are built on trust.
17. Concentrate single-mindedly on one thing at a time. High achievers do “first things first” and one thing at a time. They persevere
without diversion or distraction.
18. Be decisive. Take time to think and then ACT. Be quick on your feet, willing to make mistakes and admit error, if appropriate.
19. Back your plans and goals with persistence and determination. Resolve in advance that you will NEVER give up. Your greatest
asset will be your willingness to stay at it longer than anyone else.
20. Be self-disciplined. Do what you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not.
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